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Faculty

  • Saqer Almarri, Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: saqer.almarri@nyu.edu
    Education: BBA American University in Dubai; MA American University of Sharjah; PhD Binghamton University State...

    Research Interests: Premodern Arabic literature, translation studies, intersex studies, gender and Islam, coloniality of...

  • Tishani Doshi, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice, Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: Visiting
    Email: tvd2@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Queens University; MA Johns Hopkins University

    Research Interests: contemporary poetry & dance

  • Nathalie Handal, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: nh53@nyu.edu
    Education: MPHIL University of London; MFA Bennington College

    Research Interests: Global literature, poetry, flash, literary travel writing, translation, diasporic literatures, Medi...

  • Paulo Lemos Horta, Associate Professor Of Literature; Global Network Associate Professor of Literature Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: paulo.horta@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD, University of Toronto; MA, Queen’s University; MA, BA, University of British Columbia, Canada.

    Research Interests: world literature

  • Sabyn Javeri, Senior Lecturer of Writing and Literature & Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sabyn.javeri@nyu.edu
    Education: MSt Oxford University, PhD Leicester University

    Research Interests: Postcolonial Feminism, South Asian Literature, Creative Writing

  • Maya Kesrouany, Assistant Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mk5725@nyu.edu
    Education: BA American University of Beirut; MA American University of Beirut; PhD Emory University

    Research Interests: twentieth- and twenty-first century cultural production from the Middle East; translation theory; ae...

  • Eduardo Lage Otero, Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish and Digital Humanities Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: eduardo.lageotero@nyu.edu
    Education: BA University of Santiago de Compostela; MA Washington University in St. Louis; PhD New York Univers...

    Research Interests: Hispanic Studies; Multimedia Learning; Language Policy

  • Alvaro Luna, Visiting Assistant Professor, Literature & Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: alvaro.luna@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of California, Santa Barbara

    Research Interests: Comparative Literature ; Literature of Migration and Diasporic Writing; Political Humanities ; Multi...

  • Piia Mustamaki, Lecturer of Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: pjm9@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Hunter College of CUNY; MA Bristol University; PhD Rutgers University

    Research Interests: travel narratives; gender, cultural and performance studies; Global South urbanism; cities as perfor...

  • Ram Natarajan, Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: vn327@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Johns Hopkins University; MA New York University; PhD New York University

    Research Interests: Violence; non-violence; memory; trauma; law; literature; translation; Argentina; India

  • Bilal Orfali, Visiting Professor of Middle East and Arab Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: bo29@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Yale University

    Research Interests: Arabic and Islamic Studies, Literature, Philology

  • Gregory Pardlo, Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: pardlo@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Rutgers University-Camden; MFA NYU; MFA Columbia University; MPhil CUNY Graduate Center

    Research Interests: Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, Translation, African American Literature, Literary Criticism

  • Maurice Pomerantz, Executive Director of the NYUAD Institute, Professor of Literature and Arab Crossroads Studies Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mp147@nyu.edu
    Education: BA, MA, and PhD University of Chicago

    Research Interests: Arabic literature

  • Harshana Rambukwella, Visiting Professor, Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: Harshana.Rambukwella@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Peradeniya, PhD The University of Hong Kong

    Research Interests: Literature, History, Nationalism, South Asia, Sociolonguistics

  • Charles Siebert, Professor of Practice of Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: cs4635@nyu.edu

  • Miguel Syjuco, Assistant Professor of Practice, Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
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    Education: BA Ateneo de Manila University; MFA Columbia University; PhD University of Adelaide

    Research Interests: n politics, history, inequality, cultural identity, literature, and formal experimentation

  • Deepak Unnikrishnan, Assistant Arts Professor of Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: du258@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Fairleigh Dickinson University; MA Fairleigh Dickinson University; MFA School of the Art Institut...

  • Marion Wrenn, Executive Director of Writing; Senior Lecturer of Writing and Literature and Creative Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mw299@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD New York University

    Research Interests: journalism history, study of popular culture

  • Shamoon Zamir, Professor of Literature and Art History; Global Network Professor of Literature and Art History Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sz42@nyu.edu
    Education: BA, University of London; MA, Institute of United States and Latin American Studies, London; PhD, Un...

    Research Interests: literature, photography, intellectual history